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Wealthy Chinese want homegrown Eton
By Antoaneta Becker
ETON - Zhou Hongxia thought the King's [COLOR=green !important][COLOR=green !important]Scholars[/COLOR][/COLOR] classroom was cold and damp and rather dark, the wooden benches carved and stained with the ink of hundreds of students that have filed through it over the centuries.
"It feels medieval and stuck in the past," she says. "I'm sure children that are not used to it will suffer at first. But if English children who studied here achieved so much, then Chinese children can too."
Zhou is unaware that David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have studied at Eton College near Windsor. And she has not heard of George Orwell, whose damning portrayal of totalitarian societies, the novel 1984.....
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LL07Ad01.html
By Antoaneta Becker
ETON - Zhou Hongxia thought the King's [COLOR=green !important][COLOR=green !important]Scholars[/COLOR][/COLOR] classroom was cold and damp and rather dark, the wooden benches carved and stained with the ink of hundreds of students that have filed through it over the centuries.
"It feels medieval and stuck in the past," she says. "I'm sure children that are not used to it will suffer at first. But if English children who studied here achieved so much, then Chinese children can too."
Zhou is unaware that David Cameron is the 19th British prime minister to have studied at Eton College near Windsor. And she has not heard of George Orwell, whose damning portrayal of totalitarian societies, the novel 1984.....
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/LL07Ad01.html